Human-in-the-Loop Task Manager for AI Agents
Machines

Agents Run on Your Hardware,
You Watch From Anywhere

Install agentrqd on a computer you own, enrol it once, and it becomes a place agents can run — in your repositories, with your toolchain. Start one from the control panel, then watch its terminal and type into it from any browser.

app.agentrq.com/sessions
A live claude-code session running on an enrolled machine, watched from the browser

Live capture from the AgentRQ app — a claude-code session started on an enrolled machine, attached and marked live.

How It Works

One binary, one enrolment, and every computer you own becomes somewhere an agent can work.

1

Install and Enrol

agentrqd is one static binary for Linux, macOS and Windows. Machines → Add machine gives you a single-use code you type on the machine itself — there is no remote enrolment.

2

Start an Agent

Pick a workspace and what to run, and it starts in that workspace's folder on that machine. Every reason a launch would be refused is worked out and shown before you press the button, not after.

3

Watch and Type

Open the terminal and you are at the prompt. Keystrokes go straight through as the bytes your keys produced, resize reflows the program on the far end, and the session keeps running whether or not anybody is looking.

One Page Per Machine

Everything about a box lives on its own page: the launcher, every session it has run, and what it has left to give. Sessions show the workspace as the heading — the kind is the same on most of them — with Terminal and Stop on the live ones.

The resource readings are there to answer one question before you start another agent: can this machine take it. CPU, free memory, uptime, load average, and free space per filesystem. A machine that has never reported says so rather than showing zeros.

AgentRQ machine detail page showing the agent launcher, three running sessions and resource readings

A Real Terminal, Not a Log Viewer

Seeing the output and using the terminal are very different products, and only one of them lets you change what happens next.

Esc Included

What travels is exactly the bytes your keys produced — Esc is 0x1b, an arrow is ESC [ A. Interrupting an agent that has misunderstood is one keystroke, not one task.

Resize Reflows

The pane measures itself and tells the far end its new columns and rows, so the program on the other side genuinely reflows rather than wrapping against a size nobody told it about.

Shared, Never Silently

Two browsers on one terminal is allowed — it is how you show a colleague what is happening — but the header names the other viewer, so it is never implicit.

The add-machine panel showing the enrolment warning above the install steps

Enrolling Is a Grant

Enrolling a machine lets anyone who can authenticate as that AgentRQ account run commands on it as the user who started the daemon. The panel says so above the commands, in the last moment where stopping is easy, and the Daemon Guide leads with it rather than burying it.

Enrolment is local-only: somebody has to be at the machine to type the code, which is what makes it safe to show in a browser. Installing the daemon is one command — curl -fsSL https://agentrq.com/install-agentrqd.sh | sh — which verifies the download against the SHA-256 checksums published with the release before anything is unpacked. That check is fail-closed and there is no flag to skip it, which is what makes the pipe worth its cost: the manual route it replaced verified nothing at all.

Reading the script first is still the better habit on a machine you are about to grant command access to — fetch it with -o, read it, run it, and it is the same install. It installs and nothing else: no enrolment, no service, nothing started, and never as root.

Limits That Are Enforced

Not advice in a README — behaviour in the daemon, which is the only kind that holds when the server is wrong.

Two Programs, and No Others

The daemon runs claude-code and acp-gateway. The panel asks for a kind, and the daemon decides from its own configuration what that means. There is no message that says "run this", so a compromised backend cannot ask a machine for a shell.

It Refuses to Run as Root

Not a warning — a refusal. An agent inherits the daemon's powers, so the daemon declines to have more than yours. That is a meaningful limit, and it is not isolation.

A Kill Switch That Works Alone

agentrqd disable deletes the token from disk and takes effect immediately, whatever the server believes. Removing the machine in the panel revokes it server-side. Either alone is enough, on purpose.

Answerable at the Machine

agentrqd status reports what is running now, in which folder, for which profile — and whether anybody is attached to its terminal at this moment, without asking the account that might be watching.

What Is Recorded, and What Is Deliberately Not

Keystrokes are passwords, tokens and the contents of files. Recording them would build the most sensitive log in the system to answer a question nobody asked.

Recorded on the server
  • An agent being started, and by whom
  • An agent being killed
  • A browser attaching to a terminal, and detaching
  • An update being approved, and to which version
Not recorded anywhere
  • Keystrokes — not on the server, not on the machine
  • Terminal output, which is relayed and then forgotten

That an attach happened, and when, is the fact worth keeping. The daemon also logs locally when a viewer attaches to a terminal on this machine and when they leave.

Updates Nobody Approved Never Happen

The daemon checks for new releases and tells the panel, but it never updates on its own initiative — because approving one means stop every agent on this machine, replace the daemon, start them again. Those sessions come back as new terminals: same agent, same folder, empty scrollback. The panel marks them restored so an empty terminal is explained rather than alarming.

Before replacing anything it checks the release manifest's signature against a key built into it, checks the download against the manifest's checksum, runs the new binary to confirm it works here, and writes down what was running — then stops it. A build with no release key refuses to update itself and says so, and agentrqd rollback puts the previous binary back.

The AgentRQ machines list showing an online host with its agent count and resource readings
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